Amazon Further Denies PayBase / GAW Miners Involvement

A few short weeks ago, Coin Fire spoke to officials at Amazon and other retailers about the implementation of PayCoin as a shopping option. We established with the retailers that none of them had any plans to integrate the cryptocurrency directly despite the repeated claims of Josh Garza and users on the HashTalk forums.

Tonight you will see the first merchant integration with Amazon search and shopping within PayBase. You will be able to purchase directly from within the platform. This feature is the first of its kind.

Mr. Garza also repeatedly stated on the Hashtalk forums that they were working with the Amazon API to carry out the purchasing feature. While this is not a direct integration with the merchants as originally claimed, it does shed some light on the issue and prompted Coin Fire to speak with Amazon spokespeople further about Paybase, Paycoin, and GAW Miners.

An Amazon spokesperson once again denied any involvement with Paycoin, Paybase, GAW Miners, or Josh Garza telling the Coin Fire team,

Per our earlier statement Amazon continues to standby our first assertion that we are in no way connected, partnered, or associated with Josh Garza, GAW Miners, Genius at Work, Paycoin, Paybase or any company connected with this operation.

Amazon does run an Amazon Associates program that allows associate members to earn commissions on sales generated via our API and developer tools.

We will work aggressively to disable API calls from those attempting to avoid our account systems, those fulfilling orders that appear to come from Amazon, or those violating the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement.

After speaking extensively with Amazon and showing them various URLs of promises made by Garza and company, they went into further details on the exact sections of the agreement that they believed from a first glance were being violated:

[…] will not intercept, record, redirect, read, interpret, or fill in the contents of any electronic form or other material submitted to us by any person or entity.

[…] will not request, collect, obtain, store, cache, or otherwise use any account information used by our customers in connection with any Amazon Site […]

[…] will not modify, redirect, suppress, or substitute the operation of any button, link, or other feature of the Amazon Site.

[…] will not make any orders or engage in other transactions of any kind on the Amazon Site on behalf of any other person or entity, or authorize, assist, or encourage any other person or entity to do so.

[…] will not take any action that could reasonably cause any customer confusion as to our relationship with you, or as to the site on which any functions or transactions (e.g., search, browse, or order) are occurring.

The Amazon spokespeople further elaborated,

Any piece of software, extension or other system which implies a partnership or intercepts customers or customer information is in direct violation of our terms and Amazon will act accordingly.

It further appears that Amazon is once again distancing itself of any relationship with Paycoin.

Coin Fire has reached out to other merchants listed on the PayBase website and will bring further details regarding statements from other merchants we have obtained in the near future.

I don’t wanna sound like a GAW supporter, or a Bitcoin supporter (because I’m still on the fence about either) but in terms of real, honest journalism.. isn’t standard practice to say who the source at Amazon is? Was it Amazon USA? Canada? Japan? Whole corporate entity? There’s some missing bits of information in the article, and it sounds like you’ve got a hidden agenda that you’re trying to promote.. just saying. All things aside, this could have been written better.

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4 years ago

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Matt

Why don’t you do some real reporting and do a report on the failure of LTC Gear that is probably a real Ponzi and Hashie that hes not responded to people who have lost money or any of the other services that have closed down and ripped people off. No for some reason the only stories on any company are about GAW only. It seems that you have a vendetta, so when you start reporting real news I may even donate to your site but until then your site just seems to be extension of BTC Talk or Reddit